JAMMAN USB FILE TRANSFER
Hi, just got myself a jamman.
The mannual does not really get into how to put samples onto the flash card.
Does anyone have a little step by step guide in how to go about doing this?
It doesnt appear to be as easy as just drag and drop the files once conected to my PC. Or if it is how do you access the samples through the jamman. How do you know its its sample 01, 02 etc
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Ben
The mannual does not really get into how to put samples onto the flash card.
Does anyone have a little step by step guide in how to go about doing this?
It doesnt appear to be as easy as just drag and drop the files once conected to my PC. Or if it is how do you access the samples through the jamman. How do you know its its sample 01, 02 etc
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Ben
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Like I said, though, I always just recorded the track directly into the JamMan, and then I knew it would work.
PROCESS FOUND ON OTHER FORUM FOLLOWS:
Here's what I discovered. You plug a usb cable into the JamMan and the contents of the card come up as a separate hard drive (at least on my Mac--read the manual for Windows). It comes with ten loops in positions 1-10. When I looked at the contents, there were 10 folders. Each folder is named LOOP1, LOOP2, etc. Each contained a WAV file called LOOP. Also, each folder contained another file (XTM?). [note: he means XML]
What you need to do is convert your Garageband loop to a wav file and add the XTM file to the folder. If you want an endless loop, use an XTM from an existing loop that repeats. Say you want to fill position 12 with a loop you created:
1. Make a folder called LOOP12
2. Put a WAV file of the loop you created into the folder. Do not specify a number for the loop. The folder title does that.
3. Copy an XTM file from another repeating loop into that folder. [Note: The JamMan will work without the XML file!]
But as I do ont have any xml files I dont know how they are made up. Can you copy and paste the contense of the xml file on here?
Does anyone have the original loops you can send me: bensmithcriterion@hotmail.com
Despreate to make this work.
Cheers
Ben
Then, connect your JamMan to the computer. If you store the loop in location 5, for example, when the icon for you JamMan appears on the computer, and you click it open, you will see a directory called JamMan. Open that directory, and your will see one for each loop you have stored. Open LOOP05, and you will see two files, one is called LOOP.WAV, the other is LOOP.XML.
But, and here is the good news, upon further research and experimentation, I found out that the XML files are NOT NEEDED!
Here is the revised process that works.
1) Create your loop/backing track. It must be saved as a 44.1khz, 16 bit MONO .wav file. A stereo file will not work.
2) In the JamMan CF card directory, create a folder for your loop. The folder must be named LOOPxx, where xx are digits from 0 to 9. For example, a folder can be called LOOP21, or LOOP97.
3) Prior to moving your loop to the folder on the CF card, name it LOOP.wav. This is the only name that works.
4) Move your loop into the folder you created in step 2.
5) Disconnect your JamMan from your computer. If you did everything right, when you select the loop number that corresponds to the folder you placed it in, the Loop light should be lit, and if you press play, the loop will play.
6) Note that when I did this with a drum loop that should have looped continuously, I ended up with blank space at the end of the loop. I have not checked to see if this was an editing issue or something that results from not recording the loop directly to the JamMan. The process, therefore, should work fine for backing tracks,( i.e. something that does not have to loop), but as yet I have not tested it fully for loops.
Good luck!
Happy Thanksgiving.
Works like a dream. Thanks very much for your help
B